{"id":487791,"date":"2025-10-22T18:55:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T22:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/storm-melissa-moves-northwest-authorities-maintain-constant-monitoring\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T18:55:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T22:55:41","slug":"storm-melissa-moves-northwest-authorities-maintain-constant-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/storm-melissa-moves-northwest-authorities-maintain-constant-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Melissa moves northwest; authorities maintain constant monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Santo Domingo.\u2013<\/strong> The director of the Dominican Institute of Meteorology (<strong>INDOMET<\/strong>), <strong>Gloria Ceballos<\/strong>, reported that the passage of the tropical storm <strong>Melissa<\/strong> continues to pose a risk due to the <strong>intense rains<\/strong> that it could generate in a large part of the country, with accumulations that could <strong>exceed 300 millimeters<\/strong> in some areas, especially in the south and southwest.<\/p>\n\n\nCeballos explained that, although the system maintains a large cloudy field, its <strong>projected trajectory towards the northwest<\/strong> is favorable, as it indicates that <strong>Melissa will gradually move away from Dominican territory<\/strong> as it approaches the peninsula of Haiti.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/Authorities assure that the spill from the Sabaneta dam remains under control and without risk to the population\">http:\/\/Authorities assure that the spill from the Sabaneta dam remains under control and without risk to the population<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nMeteorological authorities predict that rainfall will <strong>increase in intensity this Thursday<\/strong>, extending until Friday, although with less frequency. However, they warned about the risk of <strong>urban and rural flooding<\/strong> due to soil saturation after several days of continuous rain.\n\nThe <strong>President Luis Abinader<\/strong> led this Wednesday, along with the <strong>Vice President Raquel Pe\u00f1a<\/strong>, the <strong>second follow-up meeting<\/strong> on the evolution of Tropical Storm Melissa, which is currently located about <strong>485 kilometers south\/southwest of Port-au-Prince, Haiti<\/strong>.\n\nDuring the meeting, the authorities evaluated the preventive measures implemented by the emergency agencies and reiterated the call for the population to remain attentive to the official bulletins of the <strong>Emergency Operations Center (COE)<\/strong> and the <strong>INDOMET<\/strong>.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.\u2013 The director of the Dominican Institute of Meteorology (INDOMET), Gloria Ceballos, reported that the passage of the tropical storm Melissa continues to pose a risk due to the intense rains that it could generate in a large part of the country, with accumulations that could exceed 300 millimeters in some areas, especially in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":487792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[42674],"class_list":["post-487791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news","tag-melissa-storm"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-22TB","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/clima-en-rd-tormenta-melissa-reducira-velocidad-y-ganara-fuerza-8e6c3085-focus-0-0-375-240.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/clima-en-rd-tormenta-melissa-reducira-velocidad-y-ganara-fuerza-8e6c3085-focus-0-0-375-240.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}